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Wild Things
Directed by
John McNaughton
R
1998
1h 48m
Crime
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6.6
65%
54%
6.4
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A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.
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Cast of Wild Things
Kevin Bacon
Sergeant Ray Duquette / Executive Producer
Matt Dillon
Sam Lombardo
Neve Campbell
Suzie Toller
Denise Richards
Kelly Van Ryan
Theresa Russell
Sandra Van Ryan
Bill Murray
Kenneth Bowden
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Detective Gloria Perez
Robert Wagner
Tom Baxter
Carrie Snodgress
Ruby
Jeff Perry
District Attorney Bryce Hunter
Eduardo Yáñez
Frankie Condo
Jennifer Bini Taylor
Barbara Baxter
Cory Pendergast
Jimmy Leach
Marc Macaulay
Walter
Toi Svane Stepp
Nicole
Dennis Neal
Art Maddox
Diane Adams
School Secretary
Paulo Benedeti
Kirk
Ted Bartsch
Bailiff
Leonor Anthony
Ken's Secretary
Wild Things Ratings & Reviews
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
...steamy, tawdry, gloriously over-the-top...
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
McNaughton and cinematographer Jeffrey L. Kimball frequently cut to glimpses of alligators lurking in the Florida swamps, echoing the predatory nature of virtually every main character.
The Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
Director John McNaughton's grip is a bawdy mix of suspense, sex and silliness, all served up with a huge tongue sticking in his cheek. It's a foamy mix, topped off by highly charged performances.
Nashville Scene
Noel Murray
Is there more to Wild Things than the trash? Sure, but not much more: Frankly, it's the trash that holds the film together.
Arizona Republic
Bob Fenster
Wild Things isn't a first-rate crime story. But it is a kicky little B-thriller and just the thing for a night of slumming.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
In acknowledging its absurdity, McNaughton gets to make an exploitation movie and rise above it all at once.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Robert Philpot
The entire cast is up to the task, and McNaughton plays them, and the audience, like a piano. He even turns the film's flaws into advantages, making them seem like part of the joke.
Entertainment Weekly
Troy Patterson
Smooth, cheap exploitation flicks slake our thirst for smut as fully as great films sate our taste for the sublime. The new master of the craft may be John McNaughton.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A collision of epically awful thespianism. It's like watching particles of antimatter crashing into each other: mutual annihilation on a massive scale.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Holleman
Parts of Wild Things were groovy, but it fell way short of making my heart sing.
New York Daily News
Dave Kehr
McNaughton wildly exaggerates the lustfulness and greediness of his characters, and the picture loses that one grain of credibility it needs to function as an involving tale, rather than a camp spectacle.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Director John McNaughton keeps things hypnotically absorbing, although sooner or later you realize you're watching glossy Hollywood chess, where flavorful character gives way to the feel of dots being connected.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Wild Things has such a complex story, and it forces so many shifts of viewpoint, that it begins to seem artificial, a stunt. And, when all its mysteries are revealed, the movie doesn't really parse or make sense. I felt cheated.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Murray somehow picks the film up, briskly tucks it into his pocket and walks away with it.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
The Stephen Peters script is twisty but vacant of character, and John McNaughton's direction is coarse, slapdash, without the saving spark of low art or high camp.
Slant Magazine
Rocco T. Thompson
Wild Things is the ultimate '90s neo-noir because it checks off all the requisite boxes, only to then become a commentary on the subgenre itself.
Associated Press
Bob Thomas
Wild Things might qualify as passable Southern melodrama, but Stephen Peters' screenplays is too ambitious by far. It changes the nature of the protagonists so often the viewer is left in puzzled exhaustion.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The director, John McNaughton, throws in one too many symbolic shots of alligators (they're predators -- get it?), but he achieves a sweat-and-champagne atmosphere that sucks you right in.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie is as tawdry as someone else's lingerie, yet not without a certain prurient watchability.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
What I'm supposed to find 'satisfying' is predicated on the idea that almost everyone in the world is trash.
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